Terry Hall

They shared that he passed away after a "brief illness" and that he would be "deeply missed" by all who knew him. A statement released on the band's ...

The Twitter account for UB40 also paid tribute to Hall, writing: "We are very sad to hear of the passing of Terry Hall the lead singer of @thespecials. Comedian Tim Vine posted: "I haven’t written a lot of fan mail in my life but I once wrote to Terry Hall. Singer Matt Goss wrote: "I’m in shock that one of my favourite singer-songwriters, Terry Hall has passed away. Meanwhile, singer Boy George tweeted: "Very sad to hear about Terry Hall! [Horace Panter](https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/22564450.specials-horace-panter-play-intimate-east-lancs-date/) set up the band, with Hall, Neville Staple, Roddy Byers and John Bradbury joining a year later. That honesty is heard in so many of his songs in joy and sorrow. It is with great sadness that we announce the passing, following a brief illness, of Terry, our beautiful friend, brother and one of the most brilliant singers, songwriters and lyricists this country has ever produced. “Terry was a wonderful husband and father and one of the kindest, funniest, and most genuine of souls. “He will be deeply missed by all who knew and loved him and leaves behind the gift of his remarkable music and profound humanity. We knew Terry had been unwell but didn't realise how serious until recently. His music and his performances encapsulated the very essence of life… We had only just confirmed some 2023 joint music agreements together.

Terry Hall, lead singer of The Specials, has died. With its mix of Black and white members and Jamaica-influenced fashion style, the band became leaders of ...

Hall's bandmates said he was "a wonderful husband and father and one of the kindest, funniest, and most genuine of souls. Most of the original Specials reunited in 2008, staged a 30th-anniversary tour in 2009 and in 2019 released an album of new material, "Encore," which became the band's first U.K. Terry often left the stage at the end of The Specials' life-affirming shows with three words... Hall joined the band that would become The Specials in the English Midlands city of Coventry in the late 1970s, a time of racial tension, economic gloom and urban unrest. music charts in the summer of 1981 as Britain's cities were erupting in riots. The band announced late Monday that Hall had died after a brief illness.

It has been announced that Terry Hall, frontman for the 1980s ska band The Specials, has passed away aged 63.

The band also requested that fans “respect the family’s privacy at this very sad time”. He will be deeply missed by all who knew and loved him and leaves behind the gift of his remarkable music and profound humanity.” “His music and his performances encapsulated the very essence of life…

The pioneering ska singer “encapsulated the very essence of life” with his music, the band said as they announced the news on Monday. Hall rose to fame as part ...

I grew up aligned to a party, the Labour Party, quite strongly. “Terry was a wonderful husband and father and one of the kindest, funniest, and most genuine of souls. Terry often left the stage at the end of The Specials’ life-affirming shows with three words… “He will be deeply missed by all who knew and loved him and leaves behind the gift of his remarkable music and profound humanity. His music and his performances encapsulated the very essence of life… Until Tony Blair made Noel Gallagher prime minister I knew exactly where I stood.”

Terry Hall, lead singer of the Specials, has died aged 63 after a career of top 10 singles.

Terry Hall, lead singer with The Specials, and also Fun Boy Three and The Colourfield, has died aged 63, following a short illness.

“It felt like a vindication of everything the band had set out to do,” Hall said. “Achieving a first No 1 album in our 60s restored our faith in humanity,” Hall told the Quietus. In 2008, inspired by the Pixies’ reunion in 2004, Hall announced that he would be reforming the Specials for a tour and new music, albeit without founding member Jerry Dammers, who claimed he had been forced out. Hall would form another band, the Colourfield, in 1984, which had a hit with Thinking of You. [David Bowie’s](https://www.thisisdig.com/artist/david-bowie/) 1975 album [Young Americans](https://www.thisisdig.com/feature/david-bowie-young-americans-album/) that pushed Hall towards becoming a singer, he told the Guardian in 2009. “It felt like the perfect moment to stop the Specials part one,” Hall said. “Terry was a wonderful husband and father and one of the kindest, funniest, and most genuine of souls. The band released a second, even darker album, More Specials, in 1980. So there’s always been a bit of that kicking around in the back of my mind. It remained at No 1 for three weeks, spending 10 weeks in the Top 40, and is widely considered one of the greatest pop records of all time. Jane Wiedlin of the Go-Go’s and Hall’s former partner wrote that she was “gutted”. They released their debut single, Gangsters (a reworking of Prince Buster’s Al Capone) in 1979, which reached No 6 in the UK singles chart.

The band announced late Monday that Hall had died after a brief illness. It called him “our beautiful friend, brother and one of the most brilliant singers, ...

Hall’s bandmates said he was “a wonderful husband and father and one of the kindest, funniest, and most genuine of souls. Most of the original Specials reunited in 2008, staged a 30th-anniversary tour in 2009 and in 2019 released an album of new material, “Encore,” which became the band’s first U.K. “He will be deeply missed by all who knew and loved him and leaves behind the gift of his remarkable music and profound humanity. Terry often left the stage at the end of The Specials’ life-affirming shows with three words… Hall joined the band that would become The Specials in the English Midlands city of Coventry in the late 1970s, a time of racial tension, economic gloom and urban unrest. music charts in the summer of 1981 as Britain’s cities were erupting in riots.

LONDON — Terry Hall, the British musician and lead singer in the late 1970s' ska-punk band the Specials, has died at the age of 63, the group announced ...

[“Well Fancy That!,”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=IxLmxZixVXk&embeds_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&feature=emb_logo) recorded in 1983 by Fun Boy Three. It was heartbreaking, the last thing we wanted to see.” “We were playing with Madness in a university town somewhere, we walked offstage and there were casualties all over the dressing room. The trauma left him in a state of depression and addicted to Valium, which he had been prescribed. He held odd jobs, including apprentice hairdresser, before deciding to pursue music after seeing the Sex Pistols in concert. “It got really extreme,” Mr. “Our country’s in a mess, do you like my gold record? Hall performed with bands Fun Boy Three, the Colourfield and Vegas. It was a haunting soundtrack to the summer of riotous unrest that gripped the country’s inner cities one month after its release. “We were expected to get a gold disc for that record, but I found that pretty horrible. It felt like the perfect moment to stop.” Why do we need that reward?” Mr.

Go-Gos guitarist Jane Wiedlin — who sang backing vocals on the Specials' 1980 album More Specials — paid tribute to her friend in a touching tweet. “Gutted to ...

Though The Specials formed and reformed a number of times over the years with a wide variety of lineups, Hall will be remembered for the indelible mark he left on the band’s first two albums and the long tail of influence in its music, message and style, which was carried on in spirit by everyone from Fishbone to The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, No Doubt, Blur, Sublime and Operation Ivy/Rancid. at the time, the band members made a statement in their rude boy two-tone suits and porkpie hats and blasted out of the gate on their Elvis Costello-produced self-titled debut on their 2 Tone label, which featured their signature cover of Dandy Livingstone’s 1967 single “A Message to You Rudy.” Hall then formed the group The Colourfield in 1984, releasing two albums with that project before pivoting to release an album with his trio featuring actress Blair Booth and jeweler Anouchka Grose: Terry, Blair & Anouchka. He will be deeply missed by all who knew and loved him and leaves behind the gift of his remarkable music and profound humanity.” His music and his performances encapsulated the very essence of life… “Terry was a wonderful husband and father and one of the kindest, funniest, and most genuine of souls.

Terry Hall, singer of the ska revival band the Specials, has died at 63, his band announced. The Specials found hits in the U.K. by bringing back ska in the ...

In 2008, he reunited the Specials with a lineup including Golding and Panter. While Hall went on to form other bands, including the Colourfield in the mid-1980s and Vegas with Eurythmics musician Dave Stewart, he also had a solo career. The band released another album, More Specials, in 1980, and had a U.K. That album featured covers of Jamaican artists like Toots and the Maytals and Dandy Livingstone, along with political messages about racism and violence, and it became a key album in the ska revival in the U.K. The band soon opened for the Clash on tour after Joe Strummer went to one of their gigs and released their self-titled debut album, produced by Elvis Costello, in 1979. After dropping out of school at 14, Hall eventually joined a band called the Coventry Automatics in his late teens.

The band's albums were landmarks of the interracial '2-tone' scene that swept England and beyond in the late '70s and early '80s.

“Terry was a wonderful husband and father and one of the kindest, funniest, and most genuine of souls. His music and his performances encapsulated the very essence of life… Terry Hall, frontman for the English ska-punk band the Specials, has died.

The singer's musical free spirit scored him hits with everyone from the Specials and Fun Boy Three to collaborations with the Go-Go's and Bananarama.

[the Face](https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/jul/11/how-we-made-the-face-nick-logan-neville-brody-magazines) and suggested they do a song together. [the Specials](https://www.theguardian.com/music/the-specials) and the 2 Tone label to the nation. It’s a lovely tune and devotional message to someone who has walked away: “If you ever think of me / I’ll be thinking of you … too much fighting on the dancefloor”), unemployment had rocketed (“Government leaving the youth on the shelf”) and decay was everywhere (“All the clubs have been closed down / This town is ’coming like a ghost town”). Hall and guitarist and vocalist Jane Wiedlin’s brief romance on that tour resulted in this supreme example of catchy 80s pop, which subsequently became a hit for both their bands. Their first single – and first hit – finds Hall using his most eerily becalmed, conversational delivery to warn that political leaders will lead us into Armageddon.

With ska-punk group The Specials, he laid the foundations for the multicultural sound of today's UK charts.

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